Welcome

We are Calderdale Save Our Services, a group of local trade unionists and community members working to defend jobs and services in the Calder Valley. We are busy campaigning against privatisation and cuts to services in Calderdale and we want you to get involved!

Calderdale SOS has taken part in the Campaign against Lansley’s NHS reforms and has been involved in building support for the Public Sector Pensions Campaign. Calderdale SOS is also active in campaigning against the Government enforced cuts to Public services.

NHS Changes explained at Calderdale SOS public Meeting:

 

Calderdale SOS is now on Facebook and Twitter:

 

 

www.facebook.com/calderdalesos

 @calderdalesos

 

Coming Up

Wednesday 5th September 7.30pm (To be confirmed)

Open Meeting

Hebden Bridge Trades Club, Holme Street, HX7 8EE

The main business will be organising public events in the run up to the TUC

A Future That Works

demonstration and as part of the campaign to

Keep Our NHS Public

in the light of Lansley’s Health and Social Care Act.

We will also elect a new Steering Group.

Open to all – Everyone Welcome!

Please keep checking back as we will post details of future Public Meetings and Campaigns here.

If you would like us to keep you informed about what Calderdale SOS is doing by e-mail, please click below to send us an e-mail request:

calderdalesosc@gmail.com

We hope you will support us and get involved in Calderdale SOS’s Campaign Against the Cuts.

Calderdale SOS in Action

Members of the Don’t Bulldoze Our Library campaign will be collecting signatures for their petition outside Halifax Central Library from 10am – Noon on Saturday, July 21.

Cuts to Disability Benefits: Public Meetings – Mon 23 July, 2pm, Todmorden Fire Station, Stansfield Rd, OL14 5DL; Wed 25 July, 2pm, Halifax Central Library, Northgate, HX1 1UN. Click for more information

Petition to Save Calderdale Royal Hospital’s Breast Cancer Ward from closure. Ward due to close 1 July. Read more – Halifax Courier article here. Sign the petition here

Link to Save The NHS page

‘A Future That Works’ – TUC National Demonstration called for Saturday 20 October. Coalition of Resistance held a National Rally to build towards this in June and Calderdale SOS has voted to support the Coalition of Resistance model resolution

National Student Demonstration called for 21 November read more

Public Sector Pensions Campaign – UNISON to ballot on Coalition pension plans 31 July to 24 August. Unite calls for reopening of NHS pensions’ talks. Go to our Public Sector Pensions Campaign page for more information

On Other Pages:

Council Cuts 2012

Women and the Cuts

 

Coming Up

Wednesday 5th September 7.30pm (To be confirmed)

Open Meeting

Hebden Bridge Trades Club, Holme Street, HX7 8EE

The main business will be organising public events in the run up to the TUC

A Future That Works

demonstration and as part of the campaign to

Keep Our NHS Public

in the light of Lansley’s Health and Social Care Act.

We will also elect a new Steering Group.

Open to all – Everyone Welcome!

Please keep checking back as we will post details of future Public Meetings and Campaigns here.

If you would like us to keep you informed about what Calderdale SOS is doing by e-mail, please click below to send us an e-mail request:

calderdalesosc@gmail.com

We hope you will support us and get involved in Calderdale SOS’s Campaign Against the Cuts.

Welcome

We are Calderdale Save Our Services, a group of local trade unionists and community members working to defend jobs and services in the Calder Valley. We are busy campaigning against privatisation and cuts to services in Calderdale and we want you to get involved!

Calderdale SOS has taken part in the Campaign against Lansley’s NHS reforms and has been involved in building support for the Public Sector Pensions Campaign. Calderdale SOS is also active in campaigning against the Government enforced cuts to Public services.

NHS Changes explained at Calderdale SOS public Meeting:

 

Calderdale SOS is now on Twitter:

@calderdalesos

 

Coming Up

Wednesday 11th July 7.30pm

Open Meeting

Hebden Bridge Trades Club, Holme Street, HX7 8EE

The main business will be how do we take forward the campaign to

Keep Our NHS Public

in the light of Lansley’s Health and Social Care Act.

We will also elect a new Steering Group and finalise SOS’s new Constitution. Click to read the proposed new Constitution and here to read the existing Constitution.

Open to all – Everyone Welcome!

Please keep checking back as we will post details of future Public Meetings and Campaigns here.

If you would like us to keep you informed about what Calderdale SOS is doing by e-mail, please click below to send us an e-mail request:

calderdalesosc@gmail.com

We hope you will support us and get involved in Calderdale SOS’s Campaign Against the Cuts.

Calderdale SOS in Action

March and Rally Saturday 7 July. Assemble 11am at Golden Hill Park Urmston for 11.45am March to Trafford General Hospital. http://savetraffordgeneral.com/ Click here for the publicity leaflet for the march.

Petition to Save Calderdale Royal Hospital’s Breast Cancer Ward from closure. Ward due to close 1 July. Read more – Halifax Courier article here. Sign the petition here

Link to Save The NHS page

‘A Future That Works’ – TUC National Demonstration called for Saturday 20 October. Coalition of Resistance held a National Rally to build towards this in June and Calderdale SOS has voted to support the Coalition of Resistance model resolution

Unite demonstration at Local Government Conference in Birmingham 26 June – Report from Birmingham Against The Cuts web site

National Student Demonstration called for 21 November read more

Public Sector Pensions Campaign – On 21 June, doctors across the UK took industrial action over changes to the NHS pension scheme. UNISON to ballot on Coalition pension plans 31 July to 24 August. Go to our Public Sector Pensions Campaign page for more information

On Other Pages:

Council Cuts 2012

Women and the Cuts